Run at startup on Ubuntu about tmux-continuum

[bruno-]

Hi,
thank you for pasting this code snippet. It would be ideal if we could make this work for ANY linux so users doesn't have to copy-paste stuff around.

Do you know what other systems (?) apart from upstart are used in linux-land? Are there like top 3 solutions for this?

[jclem]

Looks like systemd is the default for most distributions now. Probably better to work something using that in.

I have no idea how to systemd, but if I figure something out before someone else posts here, I'll post my findings.

On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:55 AM, Bruno Sutic [email protected] wrote:

Hi,
thank you for pasting this code snippet. It would be ideal if we could make this work for ANY linux so users doesn't have to copy-paste stuff around.

Do you know what other systems (?) apart from upstart are used in linux-land? Are there like top 3 solutions for this?

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[michael-coleman]

I also use Ubuntu 14.04 - which uses upstart by default, but Ubuntu 15.04 has switched to systemd. I haven't tried the script - but it looks to me like it would work on upstart based systems. (But you probably wouldn't want to distribute to users as it won't handle any unusual situations gracefully - e.g. what happens if tmux was already started? what happens if other programs or services that tmux relied on weren't booted themselves yet?).
The whole linux init system and PID 1 (e.g. sysV, upstart or systemd) is unfortunately quite a mess at the moment, where all major distros literally use different versions - slackware even uses its own init system again.
But where things really get messy is the fact that just because a system uses e.g. upstart as the controlling init service - most packages still define their init processes as sysV init scripts - and only a select few important scripts get converted to the new fancy system.
So like most things in Unix like systems - if you wanted the script to work everywhere, you would likely want to write it in the oldest most established system (sysV init) and because the most of the unix world uses them - any new init systems have to (and do) support them.

[ILMostro]

systemd is definitely the way to go. However, I'm (yet) sure how to deal with systemd-logind, as that's the new login manager that monitors sessions, powerbutton events, etc.

In the meantime, a workaround might be to provide a line in ~/.xinitrc and/or a ~/.config/autostart/tmux-start.desktop file with an exec command like:

'''
xterm -e tmux new-session -d 'journalctl -fl' ; split-window -h -d ; attach &
'''
Alternatively, make the line more "portable" by using xdg-open instead of xterm.

Furthermore, as per the Arch Wiki, cron can/should be used to autostart non-GUI applications.

[ILMostro]

I just stumbled upon this ArchWiki page that might be of particular interest for creating/using user-specific startup scripts.

[bruno-]

We'll soon be merging PR #12 which adds Linux systemd support.